1.   In contrast, India and Pakistan have hundreds of thousands of troops poised for war along their border who have been engaged in fierce artillery duels for two weeks.

2.   Witnesses said the palace was burning under a fierce Russian artillery bombardment Saturday night.

3.   Pakistan faced tremendous international pressure to get fighters to withdraw from Kargil as both sides traded fierce artillery fire.

4.   A Pakistani soldier was killed and another was seriously injured in a fierce artillery duel Tuesday along the disputed Kashmir border, defense officials and eyewitnesses said.

5.   Bosnian Serbs encroaching on the enclave of Zepa launched a fierce artillery and mortar attack on the town Tuesday, an apparent attempt to force its capitulation.

6.   Both sides have engaged in fierce artillery barrages across the cease-fire line.

7.   But Bosnian Serbs later unleashed fierce artillery attacks on several government-held towns, killing an unspecified number of people and wounding many others.

8.   But Serb gunners later launched fierce artillery attacks on government-held towns.

9.   But Serb sources said the Bosnian army then became trapped under fierce Serb artillery fire.

10.   Each day, there are new reports of fierce artillery duels between Pakistani and Indian soldiers.